{"id":663050,"date":"2026-01-08T03:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=663050"},"modified":"2026-01-08T03:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:38:14","slug":"arsenal-team-news-predicted-lineup-vs-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/01\/08\/arsenal-team-news-predicted-lineup-vs-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Team News & Predicted Lineup vs Liverpool for January 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal ended the first half of the 2025\/26 season in winning form, and began 2026 in the same fashion, grinding out a hard-fought 3-2 victory against Bournemouth. The Gunners have suffered only two defeats in all competitions this season, one of which was against Liverpool, and it\u2019s now time for the return fixture at the Emirates<\/a>. Can Mikel Arteta\u2019s men get their revenge? Or will Liverpool get the double over the Gunners? Here is our Arsenal<\/a> predicted lineup for this 20:00 GMT kick-off slot.<\/p>\n

Arsenal Predicted Lineup & Team News vs Liverpool<\/b><\/h2>\n

How Arsenal Have Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n

The Gunners find themselves five points clear at the top of the table. Last time out against Bournemouth, Arteta\u2019s men found themselves 1-0 down due to a rare defensive error. They lined up in their normal 4-3-3 formation, with David Raya starting in goal, with Jurrien Timber, William Saliba, Gabriel, and Piero Hincapie completing the defence.<\/p>\n

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In midfield, Arteta selected Declan Rice, Martin Odegaard, and Martin Zubimendi. In the wide areas, it was Gabriel Martinelli and Noni Madueke supporting the out-of-form Viktor Gyokeres.<\/p>\n

Arsenal Team News<\/h3>\n

In the pre-match press conference<\/a>, Arteta was asked about the availability of Riccardo Calafiori and Cristhian Mosquera, and said: \u201cNo, they are out again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Discussing the impending return of Kai Havertz, Arteta said:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are obviously monitoring his load; he has been out for a long time for two different reasons, and he is very close. He trained this morning again, and hopefully we are going to have him available in the best version of Kai Havertz.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arsenal Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n
GK: Raya<\/div>\n
LB: Hincapie<\/div>\n
CB: Gabriel<\/div>\n
CB: Saliba<\/div>\n
RB: Timber<\/div>\n
CM: Zubimendi<\/div>\n
CM: Rice<\/div>\n
CM: Odegaard<\/div>\n
LW: Martinelli<\/div>\n
ST: Gyokeres<\/div>\n
RW: Saka<\/div>\n

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IMAGO \/ PA Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arsenal ended the first half of the 2025\/26 season in winning form, and began 2026 in the same fashion, grinding out a hard-fought 3-2 victory against Bournemouth. The Gunners have suffered only two defeats in all competitions this season, one of which was against Liverpool, and it\u2019s now time for the return fixture at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":647081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,16,1831],"tags":[9689,4372],"class_list":["post-663050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-arsenal","category-liverpool","category-starting-line-up","tag-arsenal-predicted-lineup","tag-mikel-arteta"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663054,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663050\/revisions\/663054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}